ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin fight to the end. that's the message from ukraine's prime minister, as russian forces close in on the besieged portion of mario paul. also on the program. families of those killed in atrocities outside the capital key, more in the debt and begin the slow process of rebuilding their lives. and pope francis says the world is seeing and easter of war. the pontiff tells the faithful ukraine has been dragged into a cruel and senseless conflict. ah,

i'm pablo folemi as welcome to the program. the last ukrainian troops remaining in the besieged port of mighty you pull have defied a russian deadline to surrender. more than 10000 civilians have been killed in the weeks long bombardment. moscow estimates around 2 and a half 1000 ukrainian soldiers are holding out a huge steel plant. russia's defense ministry says it will destroy those who continue to resist. ukraine's prime minister says the city has not fallen and its forces, we'll fight to the end. while dw correspondent rebecca ritters is in t force. hi rebecca, good to see you. now the deadline has passed. what is the latest we know from are you pull? that's right, pablo the russians gave the ukrainian soldiers until $1300.00 to de local time to

come out with their hands up or, or risk being shot, being killed. they have, it seems it would appear, have ignored that order. as just as you're reporting the prime minister saying that fighting continues, isn't all that surprising the as of battalion, those ukrainian soldiers defending this city have said that they are going to fight till the end. they've said that all the way along. since the beginning of this war, and they're famous here in ukraine for, for managing to defend that city. back in 2014, when russia invaded the 1st time. so it's very and surprising that they haven't hated that warning. now mary, you paul, has been under seed for weeks as we've been reporting, and that is true atrocities and devastation coming out of that city. the stories are truly shocking, but it is a key target for russia both tactically and territorially, if they are successful in taking married paul,

it will link up areas that the under their control and crimea, and the don bass and also really give a big not to the ukrainian economy not able to use that port to export it. steel and wheat and other products. so definitely a key city, both sides fighting till the end. ukraine is definitely outnumbered, but it isn't over yet. now president lansky warned russia peace talks will end of its forces killed the ukrainian troops defending marty you pull? has there been any reaction to that? oh, that's right. i mean, after that directive or the that sir ultimate him was given by rushes and then he came out and said that, you know, if the, if the ukrainian soldiers are killed than any pace negotiations or pace deal a would die with them. but in reality, those pace talks have actually been on hold for some weeks now. ever since russian soldiers retreated from areas around, keep around here where i am, atrocities that were found in their wake of their retreat and retrieval. really put

the talks on, on a, on a back burner anyway, ukrainians and russians not speaking to each other for several weeks. for a couple of weeks now. sorry. we were hearing room is that russian oligarchy, roman abram of it was in town. he's of course famous for being the former own of chelsea, a football club. he was apparently here trying to revive those talks. but today the foreign minister has said that russia and ukraine and not talking so definitely are still on ice. whatever happens in maryville will be decisive, and whether or not those talks can continue rebec ritters in cave. many facts well, for more on the military situation in ukraine were joined at our by former military intelligence officer, frank lead, which, who's in oxford in england. hi and welcome to d w. now the ukrainian forces in marty. you, paul, have rejected an ultimatum set by russia with the ukranian prime minister saying

they'll quote, fight to the end in multiple. but what can be ukraine? can the ukranian forces actually hold back the russians? well, they can hold back, it can hold them back as long now as they survive, what they've been given it seems to me is a no quarter by the enemy, which is to say that there is little point in you surrender because we're going to kill you anyway, which is entirely country to the laws of all the laws and customs of want. of course the geneva conventions, one of the problems of getting a court order. is that your courage, your enemy to fight? it seems to me that that's the direction. this is how strategically important then is my you pull for the russians. ok. it's important for 2 major reasons. the 1st that it would open the way for a land corridor between the occupied don bass area and equally occupied crimea. now

currently the only conflict between russia and crime is effectively a long bridge. they finish, i think about 3 or 4 years ago. right now they'll have a long corridor into the crime it's. that's the 1st thing. second thing from the perspective of the direct military situation, there are between $6.00 and $8.00 russian, italian combat groups, which are about in theory, a 1000 men each. but of course for risk, significantly less of a very ravaged. but those will be released on the unit, supporting them, probably to strike north into ukraine, which will will be a problem of ukrainian forces. and that's one of the reasons these guys have been given the order to fight on. i suspect. let's talk actually a little bit more about russia strategy. now. they've confirmed the death of general vladimir for all of another high ranking general who's killed in ukraine. and what does this tell us though about russia's military strategy?

well, the 1st thing it tells us is that they're not very good at commanding control. one of the advantages of western forces is demonstrate last 30 years is a great initiative to the 4 commanders these generals being killed. which by the way, constitutes about 30 percent of their general general offices so far that it's an amazing number. if we just take into account. but in the 15 years or so, now the americans last 6 generals in 51 days the russians have lost 8 full channels . but what's happening here are 2 things. first, the generals are going for to sort out mess created by the fact that there's very little initiative to be had in a lower lower officer orders as well. the 2nd thing is, is outstanding targeting by you train your forces, which i suspect is being assisted by, by western and nato nato intelligence. one thing nato's been very, very good at not going to stand other places, high value targeting. and these channels are high value targets. frank, russia is also lost. it's black c flagship mosque of it this week. but it also

leads me on to wonder how long can they continue to suffer a loss of like the ones that we seen so far. heritable estimates of the losses. the russians have taken her between 25 and 30 percent of their initial force problems. the russians have is that they don't have the kind of reverse reserve system. it said the americans have all the most western countries have noted to have the depth of manpower. so the people's republic of china. so what they're trying to do now is essentially scraping the bottom of the barrel for the soldiers. they have called up that very few reserves. those who've been serving, well, stop serving since 2012 and they'll take a long time to get them into the front line. they're also suffering endemic problems of corruption within their ranks, which, which also things things out in terms of manpower and efficiency. they're in very serious trouble. my estimation on that isn't necessarily entirely good news because it raises the possibility of escalation using weapons other than standard

conventional italian combat groups. military expert, frank lead, which in oxford and again, thank you for joining us on the w. thank you. education officials that say schools and germany could see up to a quarter of a 1000000 new students as young people flee the war in ukraine. an estimated 40000 school age children are already here, and many schools are setting up a welcome classes to help the newcomers. it just is that your pocket calculator? yes it is my pocket calculator. now all together, pocket calculator. it's a new language and a new life. these teenagers that lessing high school fled ukraine after rushes invasion, 3 weeks into their german education. things seem to be going well. i've had them at the rug. i guess you could say that the welcoming class really did make things

easier for me to begin with. so i've seen what happens in similar situations where the students haven't yet learned to read or write and where they can't speak any english. and that tends to make communication much, much more difficult, but it's not a problem in this class and it's been back upper ganeth thought. being able to speak english means they can easily talk with their german classmates for our berry vest ally their stories familiar. she is a refugee who arrived in germany 30 years ago from casa voe. she knows the importance of being able to communicate to day in opportunity to leave the classroom, to learn about herbs. yeah, i really like this school because the the system of education in ukraine in germany are completely different as her like talk more. usually when we are in ukraine,

we like her read and doesn't screw right in very much while instilling the importance of learning german to the new arrivals. i re, barry is aware of the pressures the refugees are already under ah, the half of my family are still in ukraine. my father and my grandfather and my uncles are as her and i, but we are calling each other. but it's really hard to think about it so far these youngsters have settled into their school, but with more young refugees arriving in germany, teachers are all too aware that there may be much bigger challenges ahead. here's a round up of some other news making headlines around the world therapy. parliament says it will try to recover money owed by french presidential candidate martin le pen. the e use anti fraud body says the pen, misappropriated

a 137000 heroes of public money when she was in m e p. the far right liter faces a minute my car in an election run off next sunday morning. the death toll in the philippines from tropical storm meggy has risen above a $170.00 search and rescue operations are continuing after the 1st tropical storm of the year hit the nation. a week ago, heavy rains set off, landslides and flooding. near mars military john ter says it will release more than $1600.00 prisoners to mark the buddhist new year. a crowd gathered outside a prison in young gone, hoping to be reunited with loved ones. local media reports say no political detainees have yet been freed hope. frances has urged leaders to heed calls for peace, referring to an easter of war. speaking in rome, the pope said the world needs love and reconciliation. now more than ever. it was the 1st easter sunday mass with a crowd since the start of the pandemic are going through a v a. d sheep,

tens of thousands gathered in the easter sunshine. oh. the revelling and there returned to tradition. after 2 years of restrictions. pope frances delivered his address on christianity's most joyous day. yet his speech a plea for peace, condemned to russia's invasion and the war in ukraine. she, apache, little mother toyota, may there be peace for watch on ukraine. so sorely tried by the violence and destruction of the cruel and census war into which it was dragged since at the inquiry. is that the 3rd she not been following, please, please let us not get used to war. she let us all commit ourselves to call for

peace, to the king from our balconies, and in our streets, the piece of paper left her back. g o frances, also appealed for peace and other regions blighted by y. o king did. he may, the conflict in europe also make us more concerned about other situations of conflate suffering and sorrow. situations that affect all too many areas of our world useful situations that we cannot overlook and do not want to forget. and she on a sofa, it is a glory. afterwards the pontiff took his spin through the crowds in his potent bill to celebrate the holiday with the faithful, his smile, a rare sight lately. as many of his recent appearances have been somber as in nancy ations of the war in ukraine. ah,

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